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WHY DO WE RESCUE DOGS BUT ABANDON BREEDERS?

Why do so many dog fanciers not fancy the people who love dogs? Why do we rescue the dogs and condemn the humans just when they need us most?

Is it because there's no glory
or $$$ in saving breeders? Did you know that many of the dogs we
automatically dub “puppy mill rescues” were once top winning champions? Why do
we shun dog breeders who fall on hard times, health, or emotional problems?

You’ve heard about the more than 80 “Wolfeboro Great Danes” rescued in June of
2017. It was an especially juicy story because the Danes were owned by a very wealthy woman who lived in an
estate mansion. Was there some
degree of envy hidden in the internet blasts and condemnation of that Dane
fancier?

My ears went up when Lindsay Hamrick, the N.H. State Director for the Humane
Society of the United States was quoted as saying “some of the pony-sized dogs
could look her in the eye and some tipped the scales at more than 300 pounds.”
Okay, it’s really not funny. Hamrick is the HSUS State Director… who obviously
knows nothing about dogs. But she knows how to raise money. The
donations poured in, not to the local shelter or resources but to the HSUS.
Makes you wonder who initiated the raid…

HSUS director Hamrick said care for the Great Danes is going to cost $500,000,
adding that the Humane Society has partnered with the Wolfeboro Police
Department to take care of the animals while the case against Fay is ongoing.

Either the rescue story was as vastly overblown as the size of the dogs and the
“horrible cruelty” or the Wolfeboro, NH Police Department grossly under-charged
the owner with only two misdemeanor counts of animal neglect. Think about that.
Not abuse. Not cruelty. She neglected to keep them off the beds and she didn’t
put them out to potty often enough. Obviously the owner had a problem but who
cares!!?!

Marilyn
Kelly worked at the estate and is quoted as stating “In her mind, she loved
those dogs, and she thought she was doing right by them.” She went on to imply
that the owner wasn’t thinking clearly or she would never have been “living and
sleeping in a house covered by feces and urine…”

Why didn’t she call family members or Great Dane breeders for help? We will
probably never know why the owner didn’t reach out for help or worse, she did
but was ignored. Rescuing dogs is easy compared to helping people which requires
much more involvement.

Photographs used
to describe the “neglect” suffered by the giant dogs prove only that the dogs
were given free access to the mansion’s nine bedrooms[1]. Danes in king size beds only prove they had free-run of the mansion.
All photos showed beautiful, spoiled Danes if anything, a little overweight.

What doesn’t escape this reporter’s notice is that there were immediate pleas
for donations and the internet lit up with alerts such as this at NH1.com
“Rescue of 84 Great Danes at NH puppy mill leaves humane society looking for
donations.”

One source who asked not to be identified questioned the motive for
the raid. She knows the owner, whose name we have withheld unless and until she
is proven guilty of animal abuse. She said “the dogs were healthy and happy”
pointing out that the Great Danes may have been “spoiled and overindulged but
were greatly loved.” She suggested that the owner needs “counseling not
punishment.”

And that is the point. Why would owners who love and spoil their dogs knowingly
neglect them? There is no evidence that the Wolfeboro Danes were in any way
mistreated but there’s ample evidence that we have an animal owner who needs
help.